Intercepting mobile communications: the insecurity of 802.11
Proceedings of the 7th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Theoretical Maximum Throughput of IEEE 802.11 and its Applications
NCA '03 Proceedings of the Second IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications
End-to-end available bandwidth: measurement methodology, dynamics, and relation with TCP throughput
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
A measurement study of available bandwidth estimation tools
Proceedings of the 3rd ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement
Horde: separating network striping policy from mechanism
Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Mobile systems, applications, and services
WiFiProfiler: cooperative diagnosis in wireless LANs
Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Mobile systems, applications and services
COMBINE: leveraging the power of wireless peers through collaborative downloading
Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Mobile systems, applications and services
Authentication on the edge: distributed authentication for a global open wi-fi network
Proceedings of the 13th annual ACM international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Dandelion: cooperative content distribution with robust incentives
ATC'07 2007 USENIX Annual Technical Conference on Proceedings of the USENIX Annual Technical Conference
FatVAP: aggregating AP backhaul capacity to maximize throughput
NSDI'08 Proceedings of the 5th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation
Bittorrent is an auction: analyzing and improving bittorrent's incentives
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2008 conference on Data communication
Link-alike: using wireless to share network resources in a neighborhood
ACM SIGMOBILE Mobile Computing and Communications Review
Opportunistic use of client repeaters to improve performance of WLANs
CoNEXT '08 Proceedings of the 2008 ACM CoNEXT Conference
Evaluation and characterization of available bandwidth probing techniques
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
IdleChat: enabling high bandwidth real-time applications in residential broadband networks
ACM SIGMOBILE Mobile Computing and Communications Review
Distortion-aware scalable video streaming to multinetwork clients
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
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With 802.11 WiFi networks becoming popular in homes, it is common for an end-user to have access to multiple WiFi access points (APs) from residents next door. In general, wireless networks have much higher bandwidth than residential Internet (DSL or Cable) connections. This provides an incentive for an end-user to simultaneously harness bandwidths from multiple APs. This paper introduces ARBOR, an 802.11 driver that aggregates broadband connections in a neighborhood and maximizes Internet access bandwidth in a secure manner. ARBOR has four important characteristics. First, ARBOR can sustain a much longer switching cycle without losing packets queued at different APs. Second, it can schedule traffic loads and (in)directly aggregate AP backhaul bandwidths. Third, ARBOR designs and implements a light-weight authentication mechanism that provides sufficient amount of security, and at the same time, ensures fast switching time. Finally, ARBOR is transparent to the upper layers of the network stack. A prototype of ARBOR has been implemented and extensively evaluated. Experiment results show that ARBOR provides significantly better throughput gains and lower Internet access delays.